Visio Introduction Profile
- Course duration
- 1 day
- Course timings
- 9:30-16:30
- Prerequisites
- Delegates must be experienced with using a mouse and working in the Windows environment.
No previous knowledge of Visio is required.
- Training formats
- Private course · tailored · 1 to 1 (all instructor led)
- Manuals
- A comprehensive course manual provides support throughout the course and upon your return to the office.
- Calendar
- Click here to see the Visio courses calendar
Course Topics
Introduction to Visio
The work area · Toolbars · Overview of templates, stencils and objects · Changing view settings ·
Navigating Pages.
Basic Techniques
Creating new drawings · Handles, endpoints and vertices · Drawing closed and open shapes ·
The freeform tool · Drawing compound lines · Selection techniques · Scaling and resizing objects ·
Moving and deleting objects · Duplicating objects quickly · Aligning and distributing objects ·
Rotating objects · Grouping objects · Smart shapes · The Stamp Tool · Adding text to shapes ·
Creating layers.
Formatting Techniques
Using the formatting toolbar · Corner rounding · Fill patterns · The line dialog box ·
Adding shadows · Format Painter · Dynamic Connectors.
Formatting Text
Format text toolbar · text styles · text dialog box · formatting text blocks ·
paragraph formatting · bullets.
Connecting Shapes
The connector tool · connect shapes command · using connector shapes · automatic connection ·
adjusting connection lines · dynamic v static connection · snap and glue dialog box · the connection
point tool · adding guides.
Common Diagrams
Creating flowcharts · creating organisation charts · creating office diagrams.
Managing Pages
Inserting, naming, re-ordering and delegates pages · page and printer setup · creating background pages ·
importing graphics · using borders and titles · headers and footers · printing.
